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                <p>When your team practices Scrum, it will hold a set of meetings, and each meeting
                    has a specific purpose and frequency. Your ScrumMaster should ensure that each meeting
                    fulfills its intended purpose, considering the following guidelines:</p>
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                        <p>The meeting agenda should be clear.</p>
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                        <p>If team members start a discussion that does not address the purpose of the meeting,
                            the members should take the discussion offline, to be completed later. The ScrumMaster
                            should identify and indicate when team members should take a discussion offline.
                        </p>
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                        <p>All meetings should follow the basic structure that is described for that meeting.
                        </p>
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                        <p>Meetings should start on time, even if some team members are late.</p>
                    </li>
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                        <p>Team members should be on time except in rare, unavoidable cases. If your schedule
                            prevents you from being on time regularly, the conflict should be resolved as soon
                            as possible. If necessary, the ScrumMaster should adjust the meeting time to resolve
                            the conflict if the change does not unfairly inconvenience another member of the
                            team.</p>
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                        <p>Each team member should come to the meeting prepared.</p>
                    </li>
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                        <p>Meetings should finish on time. In most cases, the length of the meeting is determined
                            by the length of the sprint. For example, take two hours for a sprint planning meeting
                            if the sprint is one week long and four hours if the sprint is two weeks long.
                        </p>
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                        <p>Scrum enforces this meeting structure to a level that might make people uncomfortable.
                            This reaction comes from the pressure to be on time, the peer accountability that
                            is associated with making and keeping commitments, and the transparency that is
                            required to actively participate.</p>
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                                <p>Purpose</p>
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                                <p>Duration</p>
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                                <p>Frequency</p>
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                                <p><span sdata="link"><a href="SprintPlanningMeeting.html">Sprint Planning Meeting</a></span> </p>
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                                <p>Determine what work to do in the coming sprint.</p>
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                                <p>Two hours per week in the sprint, up to four hours</p>
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                                <p>Once per sprint</p>
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                                <p><span sdata="link"><a href="DailyScrumMeeting.html">Daily Scrum Meeting</a></span> </p>
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                                <p>Allow team members to commit, collaborate, and communicate risks.</p>
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                                <p>Fifteen minutes</p>
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                                <p>Daily</p>
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                                <p><span sdata="link"><a href="SprintReviewMeeting.html">Sprint Review Meeting</a></span> </p>
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                                <p>Show the customer and other stakeholders the work that the team accomplished in the
                                    sprint, and receive feedback.</p>
                            </td>
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                                <p>Two hours per week in the sprint, up to four hours </p>
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                                <p>Once per sprint</p>
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                                <p><span sdata="link"><a href="RetrospectiveMeeting.html">Retrospective Meeting</a></span> </p>
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                                <p>Identify and implement ideas for process improvement.</p>
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                                <p>Three hours</p>
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                                <p>Once per sprint</p>
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